Steve Walters (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 9 January 1972 | ||
| Place of birth | Plymouth, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| – | Crewe Alexandra | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989–1995 | Crewe Alexandra | 146 | (10) |
| 1995–2000 | Northwich Victoria | 177 | (35) |
| 2000–2001 | Morecambe | 22 | (1) |
| 2001 | Stevenage Borough | 17 | (2) |
| 2001–2002 | Kidsgrove Athletic | 48 | (62) |
| 2002–2004 | Rhyl | 56 | (8) |
| 2005–2011 | Rhos Aelwyd | ?? | (??) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Steve Walters (born 9 January 1972) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Crewe Alexandra and the Football Conference for Northwich Victoria, Morecambe and Stevenage Borough. He was a midfielder.
Playing career
Walters began his career with Crewe Alexandra.[1] He made his first team debut at 16 years and 119 days on 7 May 1988 against Peterborough United.[2] His first Crewe goal was scored against Hartlepool United at Gresty Road on 4 March 1989.[3] Through the early part of the 1990s he built up 173 appearances for the club over all competitions, scoring eleven goals, and appeared in the 1993 Football League Third Division play-off Final, which Crewe lost on penalties to York City, though they gained automatic promotion a year later.
He dropped out of league football in 1995 to join Football Conference side Northwich Victoria.[1] After five years with Victoria he signed with Morecambe, where he spent one season. In 2001, Walters moved to Stevenage Borough, and then on to Kidsgrove Athletic.
Child sexual abuse victim
On 16 November 2016, former Crewe defender Andy Woodward revealed that he had been a victim of child sexual abuse by former football coach Barry Bennell (convicted as a paedophile in 1998) at the club in the 1980s.[4] Subsequently, other victims contacted the police,[5] and on 22 November, The Guardian reported that Walters had been another of Bennell's victims.[6][7]
Honours
- with Crewe Alexandra
- Football League Fourth Division third-place promotion winner: 1988–89
References
- 1 2 "Crewe Alexandra". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- ↑ Crisp, Marco (1998). Crewe Alexandra Match by Match. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 119. ISBN 1 899468 81 1.
- ↑ Crisp, Marco (1998). Crewe Alexandra Match by Match. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 120. ISBN 1 899468 81 1.
- ↑ Taylor, Daniel (16 November 2016). "Andy Woodward: 'It was the softer, weaker boys he targeted'". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ↑ Taylor, Daniel (21 November 2016). "Six come forward after Andy Woodward's story of abuse at Crewe". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
- ↑ Taylor, Daniel (22 November 2016). "Second footballer reveals abuse by serial paedophile Barry Bennell". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ↑ "Second footballer comes forward over abuse at Crewe Alexandra". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
